Butterfly Bunny Birthday Card Duo

Welcome to Fun Fold Friday here on my blog!  After I used this die to make Easter cards, I made a note to use it again for summer Birthday cards. This week I made these two and the second one is a pop up.

The die is quite large, so I made my cards into 5x7" but a 6x6" square card would work as well. The patterned paper is MANY years old and from my stash. I die cut the Butterfly Bunny from patterned paper and adhered them both to burgundy card stock. Then the images were fussy cut so I could pop them up with thin foam tape.

For this first card I added Stickles glitter glue around the butterfly wings, and added a pair of small die cut butterflies.

Below is the inside of the first card ... with a stamped sentiment and a light green vellum butterfly.

The second card is stepped up. I die cut butterflies from both patterned paper and white pearl vellum, adhering three of them over the butterflies on the main image. They were glued down along the butterfly bodies only, so there is some lift to the wings.

The first card base was white but I wanted to try it with a Kraft card base as well. In the end, I think I like the white one better. For the inside of this second card I used Karen Burniston's Lorna Label Pop Up.

The 'fluttering by' sentiment is actually part of a larger stamp that also says 'I miss you'. I knew I wouldn't use that one very often, so I trimmed away the 'miss you' portion and can add it to the 'fluttering by' sentiment again if I do need it. But I will get lots more use out of that stamp with it saying "fluttering by to say ..." 

I also added a couple more butterflies to the pop up area, and of course - Glitter Dot stickers for some shimmer.

The birthday sentiment was stamped on a scalloped white panel - both it and the crosshatch green panel are from the Short Crosshatch Rectangles die set - also by Karen Burniston

Supplies used:

Patterned paper - K & Company (very old, from my stash)

Bunny & Butterfly die - Creative Expressions

Butterfly dies - Scrapbook .com

Shimmer spray

Sakura glitter pen

Lorna Label Pop Up - Karen Burniston

Short Crosshatch Rectangles - Karen Burniston

Little Etched Butterflies - Paper Rose

White pearl vellum - stash

Fluttering By Sentiments - Waffle Flower 

Catherine Pooler coloured inks

Blending sponge - Tim Holtz

Glitter Dot stickers - Ecstasy Crafts

Stickles glitter glue

Happy Birthday - Birthday Blowout, Poppy Stamps

Essential Birthday Sentiments - LDRS

Kraft 5x7" card base & envelope

White 5x7" card base & envelope

Jingle Bells Mini Slimline Card

Hello my crafty friends! Today I'm sharing the third and final card I made using this lovely Jingle Bells die that a friend loaned me. After cutting it from blue mirror cardstock I layered it over silver foiled patterned paper for even more shimmer and shine!

To make the bells stand out more, I backed them with white card stock before attaching the panel to the silver foil dotted paper piece.

Inside is a matted white panel, a stamped sentiment and some silver snowflake peel off stickers.

Additional Supplies:
White cardstock
Patterned paper - Stampin' Up (retired)
Navy cardstock
Sentiment inside - Hero Arts (Older set, long retired)
Blue mirror card stock - Hunky Dory

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Red Jingle Bells Christmas Card

Hello my crafty friends.  I'm back with another Christmas card using this lovely Jingle Bells die that a friend loaned me. I made four holiday cards with it and this is number three. If you'd like to see the first two - click HERE.

The Jingle Bells piece was die cut from rainbow holographic card stock, mounted onto a red panel and then the whole thing was embossed with an ombre dots embossing folder. That panel was then adhered to a white card front that is sized 6 x 4.5". The tiny iridescent snowflakes add even more sparkle to the card front! I added the little white bow, but not sure I'm crazy about it.

Here is a look at the inside, with a stamped greeting on a matted layer.

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making and not every link below is an affiliate one! 😊

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
Red pearl cardstock - stash
Embossing folder - Stampin' Up (retired)
Seam binding
Rainbow Holographic cardstock, Mirri Card essentials - Hunky Dory
Sentiment - Hero Arts (old, from my stash)
White card stock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)
Self Adhesive Snowflakes - Stampin' Up (retired)

Hummingbird & Butterflies, Pop Up Card

Hello my crafty friends. I actually have a few Easter cards that didn't get shared in time for Easter, so today I'm sharing one of them. I used the Hummingbird Edger die from Creative Expressions for the front of the Mini Slimline card. I painted the belly of the hummer with Wink of Stella and added a couple of white gel pen highlights.

Inside I created a simple box pop up and added a trimmed crosshatch label. The butterflies were white heat embossed and die cut.

I stamped a sentiment on the label and added a tiny butterfly sticker.

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making!

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
White card stock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)
Patterned Paper - Guilded Ink

Hummingbird Birthday Pop Up Card Duo

Hello my crafty friends and welcome to Fun Fold Friday here on my blog. Last fall I had picked up a few of these edger dies from Creative Expressions and since I have really enjoyed them I couldn't resist buying this hummingbird one recently as well. While I made Birthday cards today, I think this die will work for several different occasions and plan on making some into sympathy cards for my stash. 

Now, in the photo above, you can see one of the issues with trying to photograph mirror card stock.  While it is actually a soft pink and matches the papers really well, it looks like a rose gold in that photo. 

I did some scoring onto the Giant Happy Birthday die cut and turned it into a pop up! I have done this before but I looked through my blog and can't find the post. 😬  I'll do a tutorial for you hopefully next week! It's another fun way to use these giant word dies from Lawn Fawn. These cards are larger than A2, they are almost 5 x 7" made using a card and envelope set that I picked up at Michaels a few years ago.

Below is a better photo of the pink mirror cardstock - and you can see that the colour matches much better than in the first photo! Those mirror heart sequins catch the light as well and are SO pretty. You also get a better look at the texture and shimmer in the pearlized purple cardstock.

I've had these sweet hummingbird stamps for years - I stamped directly on a scrap of the patterned paper then die cut the hummer.Metallic markers adds some additional sparkle and shine, but that just doesn't show up in photos. I used gold, green, blue and purple Bic metallic markers and really liked the effect. 

*** Edited to add that I entered these cards into the latest challenge at Seize The Birthday, as the challenge coordinator saw them on IG and suggested that they worked perfectly for the theme! 

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making!  Note, since I cannot link the patterned paper I used, I will link another lovely package that I also have in my craft room and use frequently. 

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
5 x 6.5" Card & Envelope set - Michaels
Patterned paper - Guilded Ink, Recollections
Bic metallic markers
Alcohol markers

Mini Slimline Sympathy Card Duo

Hello my crafty friends!  I like to keep a few sympathy cards on hand so I made these two Mini Slimline ones for my stash. They were inspired by the pretty patterned paper, which is many years old from my stash. I thought the soft print and colours lended themselves to this type of card. 

These cards are a mix of old product and new - something you can expect a fair bit from me in 2022. I am learning a lot of crafters are wanting to see a mix of older items, as most of us have them but there is always a push to buy the newest, latest and greatest. Now I like new goodies as well, but I hope I can show you how combining the two will help you breathe new life into those older supplies sitting on the shelf. The new item on these cards is the pretty reverse scalloped frame from Kat Scrappiness ... everything else came from my stash.

One card has the Summer Posy, a die by Creative Expressions that I picked up last summer on a Flash Sale at R&R Scrapbooking. The other has a leaf spray from MFT and if it is still available I will link it below for you. The layered butterflies were created with a retired Stampin' Up punch, and the sentiment strips are by Taylored Expressions and linked below. 

Inside, I used a retired stamp set by Hero Arts and Catherine Pooler's Blackjack ink.

This card needed a little somethin' somethin' at the top right, so I added a single mirrored heart sequin. I am LOVING those things! ❤️

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making!

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
Butterfly punch - Stampin Up (retired)
Shimmer spray
Silver Dots - Dazzles
Stamps inside - Hero Arts (old, from my stash)
Patterned Paper - A4, Momenta (old, from my stash)
White card stock - Accent Opaque Digital Super Smooth (Amazon .ca)

Summer Posy - Creative Expressions

New Years Mini Slimline Card Trio

Hello! - since it's the last day of the year, I am sharing three cards I made to celebrate the New Year. Let's hope that 2022 is better to our world than 2021 was ... I had such high hopes last year this time. That being said, I'm very thankful that our family had a good year, with our health and lots of happy times & memories.

All three cards I'm sharing today are Mini Slimline cards are 3.5 x 6.25" and I used the Celebration Mouse Edger die by Creative Expressions. The layout is fairly basic but it was fun and I do love the shine from the mirror card stock. For the first two I cut the edger from white and adhered it on top of the blue mirror panel which was the same size as the card front.

The words were penned with a blue marker and popped up with thin foam tape. Since I can't link the mirror card stock I used on these cards, I linked other ones that I have in my craft room.

Here is a peek at the inside - both of them are the same, with a scalloped Mini Slimline die by Divinity Designs. The Cheers! and wine glasses are dies by Karen Burniston and everything that is available is linked below for you.

For the third card, I did the opposite - cutting the Celebration Mouse Edger from red mirror card stock and mounting it to the front of a white Mini Slimline card base. The fallaway stars from all three images were scattered onto the cards and adhered with glue.

Inside I combined dies by Karen Burniston to create the sentiment.

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making!

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
Celebration Mouse Edger - Creative Expressions
White card stock

Poinsettia Mini Slimline Card

Hello!  Today I'm sharing a Mini Slimline card that I made to use up leftover bits created from making other holiday cards. To create the burgundy matting layer for the label shape, I cut the base layer again from burgundy and cut it in half horizontally. Then I adhered each piece behind the green/cream one, separating them in the centre slightly until I had a bit of burgundy peeking out above the top and bottom edges.

Here is a peek at the inside, with a Stampin' Up sentiment . 

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making!

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:

Green and burgundy card stocks - stash

Patterned paper - Brenda Walton (old, like 2003 - 2006)

Red patterned paper - old, from my stash

Pine sprigs - Impression Obsession (retired)

Shimmer Spray

3D Poinsettia - K&Co

Confetti card stock - stash

Layered oval - New Zealand Collection Tag, Creative Expressions

Shimmer Spray

Winter Cheer Christmas Card

Hello!  Today I'm sharing a larger-than-A2 card using one of those edger dies I purchased from R&R Scrapbooking this fall. It's made by Creative Expressions and R&R had an amazing Flash Sale on those dies that I just happened to see. And take advantage of. 😊

I die cut the edger from white pearl card stock, then added it over a patterned paper that has been in my stash for YEARS. The snowflakes were punched using a Martha Stewart punch and I added some adhesive backed snowflakes for additional shimmer and shine.

Here is a peek at the inside:

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making!

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post.

Additional Supplies:
Patterned paper - Peppermint Twist/Believe, Brenda Walton
5 x 6.5" card & envelope - Michaels
Adhesive backed snowflakes - Stampin' Up (retired)
Snowflake punch - Martha Stewart
Winter Cheer Edger - Creative Expressions

White Christmas Card

Hello!  Today I'm sharing the Christmas card I made for a friend. I have really enjoyed using these silhouette dies from Creative Expressions for holiday cards, and look forward to bringing out some of the other designs I purchased once I'm done sharing holiday cards! 

I didn't really like the gold foiled stars showing through the word Christmas, so I die cut the 'Christmas' area again from navy card stock. After attaching the fallaway white letters under the navy ones, I dropped them back into the openings and added shimmer with Wink of Stella. This part was a little fiddly, but I liked the look a lot more.

The iridescent snowflake is from Stampin' Up, as is the patterned paper - long retired.

Here is a peek at the inside - where I created the sentiment layer with a Snowflake border die from Elizabeth Craft Designs. I assumed it was retired, but when I checked it was still in stock - AND ON SALE - so I was able to link it for you!  sentiment stamp is another oldie-but goodie .

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making!

Any supplies I'm unable to link are listed at the very bottom of my post

Additional Supplies:
5 x 6.5" card and envelope - Michaels
Adhesive backed snowflake sequins - Stampin' Up (retired)
Sentiment - possibly Hero Arts (many years old and well used!)
Shimmer Spray

Tower Pinwheel Birthday Card

Hello!  Today I'm sharing another Tower Pinwheel card - this one was made for a friend. Once again I made it in the 5 x 7" size and I had so much fun making it I started another one in a Halloween Theme. 😊.

I have all the details on YouTube: 

I am so impressed with how flat these cards fold down for mailing! Below is a collage photo showing all the different 'flaps'.

If you are interested in making a Pinwheel Tower Card, the video tutorial that I used is HERE

This blog uses affiliate links whenever possible. This means, that at no cost to you, if you make a purchase through one of my affiliate links that I may receive a small commission from your purchase. I only link products that I own, love and use for my card making!

Additional Supplies:
Shimmer spray
Austrian Collection, Salzburg Oval - Creative Expressions
Summer Posy die and Autumn Posy die - Creative Expressions
Glitter Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs (out of stock)
White border Peel Off stickers - Dazzles

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